The Song Remembers When....something for my kids

This blog is going to be somewhat random. I found about 10 minutes to run in here and share some random thoughts!!!! I can honestly say I have not been deliberately neglecting my blog. After what seems like the longest sickness run EVER at the Smith Ranch, I couldn't find it in my realm of sanity to get on here!
Last night, we came across some old home movies that opened up places that my heart had locked away. Videos of Chance at such a young age. As I sat there and watched my little man, in diapers, and speaking in that tiny voice, a flood gate of memories came to my mind. And in that moment, I realized how much time I had taken for granted! I saw myself next with precious Bella in my belly, and my handsome prince talking in third person ~ "I wanna see Chance. Cool Dude." All these songs started popping in my head. Songs that had never had real meaning until my children came and took over my life!!! So I have been on a quest today. Finding pictures of when they were smaller, and soaking up and re-living all those moments that I know now are a gift from The Lord. So that is what this blog will be. A walk down the "memory lane" that I could find.....Each one complete with a song that will take me straight back to that time....
ANGEL EYES: Here is precious Bella on her 1st Birthday......"So tonight I lie- stars above..How Did I ever win your love? What did I say? What did I do...to turn your angel eyes my way........"

Christmas at the Smith Ranch is always such a special time...My kids LOVE LOVE the song Jingle Bells....I remember this picture...that is all Chance wanted to sing!!!!!!!!! Bella was 6 months old, and Chance just 3 1/2.......Jingle All the way

The next pictures make me think about that song..Let them Be little. They always used to go under the table and hide, and they would laugh cause they really thought I couldn't find them......SOOOO:
Let them be little cause their only that way for a while....Give them hope give them strength, give them love everyday. Let them cry, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle....Let them Be Little....

In my Daughters Eyes........ (Enough Said)

The day we went to have Chance, JD had called the radio station and had them play the George Strait song..A Fathers Love...This is Chance's third birthday picture....That song is the first thing I thought of when I saw this....I can still remember the tears in my eyes as I drove to the hospital with that song on the radio....

"Let me tell you a secret about a Fathers Love, a secret that my daddy said was just between us...... "

His First Halloween.........

I am just living in a reality of how fast time goes by, and how I will never get these days back. It makes me think of the Trace Adkins song, "Then they do"....

We can't wait for them to grow up...

"Then they do, and that's how it is...

Its just quiet in the morning, can't believe how much you miss,

All they do, and all they did. You want all the dreams they dreamed of to come true....Then they do........"



Thanks for walking briefly down memory lane with me....